By: Duncan Long

Excerpt: I drove up the gravel shoulder to the edge of the highway and held my steering wheel as the giant vehicle trained its guns on me. I tried to look friendly. I gave a quick wave to go with my biggest, fake smile. As the road train thundered past, the gun crew waved back and then I held on as my van rocked in the wash of the twenty-six car chain of gray and black composite.

By: Department of Defense

Government Reference Publication

Excerpt: Combustion residence time proportional to Arrhenius activation energy (The lower the activation energy, the shorter the combustion residence time) ... This formed the basis of data matching the MIT combustion analysis with a more general bimolecular second-order chemical kinetics combustion model ...

By: Barbara M. Hodges

Her published novels include, The Blue Flame, The Emerald Dagger, and The Silver Angel, the first three fantasy novels in her Daradawn series. She has also co-authored, Shadow Worlds, a science fiction suspense work with Darrell Bain, and Stargazer's Children, a speculative fiction novel.

By: Dave Freer

Excerpt: Chapter 1 Port Tinarana was like an old, decaying tart, her face lined with a myriad of streets and alleys, inexpertly caked with a crude makeup of overhanging buildings. The alleyways seemed to grow narrower and more choked in filth with the passing of each year. Judging by the ankle-deep slush, this dead end hadn?t had the garbage cleared in the last three hundred of those years. And in a few minutes his body would become yet another once-human part of it. He ...

By: Thomas A. Cardwell

Educational Reference Publication

Preface: It is true that there are deep-rooted interservice differences that break out occasionally in seemingly bitter exchanges. But they are the product of honest convictions by honorable men of broad experiences and ... manifestations of a deeply justified pride in all that their respective services have contributed to the growth and security of the country.

Introduction: The laws of nature, our place in the world and our behavior have been studied by scientists and philosophers for thousands of years. Along with logical assumptions, science uses quantifiable research and data. Yet our scientists and researchers have discovered that the more they advance in their research, the more obscure and confusing they find the world to be. Science has undoubtedly brought enormous progress into the world, yet it is limited. Scientific ...

Excerpt: What Is the Nature of Our Soul? Sloka 26: Our soul is a body of light which never dies. It reincarnates, taking a new physical body again and again to create and resolve karma. After many lives of experience, it knows God fully. Then it does not need to reincarnate again.

By: Jacques Futrelle

Excerpt: With hideous, goggling eyes the great god Budd sat cross?legged on a pedestal and stared stolidly into the semi?darkness. He saw, by the wavering light of a peacock lamp which swooped down from the ceiling with wings outstretched, what might have been a nook in a palace of East India. Draperies hung here, there, everywhere; richly embroidered divans sprawled about; fierce tiger rugs glared up from the floor; grotesque idols grinned mirthlessly in unexpected corn...

By: Laurel Herbert Turk

By: Jose Sanchez

By: Raymond T. Collins

Medical Reference Publication

INTRODUCTION
The project Strengthening of epidemiological surveillance (IN0 ESD 003)
was formed by merging the strengthening of epidemiological services
(Indonesia 0091) and plague epidemiology (Indonesia 0099) projects.
Under Project Indonesia 0091, a s t a t i s t i c i a n , an epidemiologFst and various
consultants participated in national seminars on epidemiological sprveillance
and provided help in developing general s t a t i s t i c a l f a c i l i t i e s . They...

By: William Dobein James

CHAPTER I. The Scope of Psychology Psychology is the Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and of their conditions. The phenomena are such things as we call feelings, desires, cognitions, reasonings, decisions, and the like; and, superficially considered, their variety and complexity is such as to leave a chaotic impression on the observer. The most natural and consequently the earliest way of unifying the material was, first, to classify it as well as might be, ...

By: Leo C Rosten

By: George H. Brett

Educational Reference Publication

Introduction: Lt Gen George H. Brett was an early air service pilot who served in World War I and had great success in the Air Corps during the interwar years. One of the few Airmen promoted to general officer rank during that time period, by 1940, when he became the chief of the Air Corps he was second only to Gen Henry H. Arnold in rank. Unlike Arnold, however, and some of Brett?s other contemporaries such as Gen George C. Kenney, Brett?s World War II service did not g...